Sentences with phrase «meant for religious people»

They aren't meant for religious people.

If the billboards read something that was meant for religious people, then you could maybe consider it evangelism.

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To think that some bunch of people, from one particular religious sect, can unilaterally decide to say some dead person is «baptised», and to think that such a declaration means anything at all for the spirit (if any) of the deceased, is bizarre.

Isn't this what so many of us don't like about people who use religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?

While taking advatage of people's faith for personal reasons is terrible, please do not assume that being religious means someone is uneducated.

I am not the most religious of people, but I do believe in God, and Jesus... but many people seem to forget that God's SON sacrificied himself for our sins... in my book, a SON is part of a FAMILY... God put us on this earth to be of free will and to make our own way... Love being the biggest part of that way... we love God and we love Jesus... but we are also all part of his FAMILY... He made us all to be part of a unit that has hope and faith and love... we were meant to procreate... so what does it matter if a person who is dying does not automatically think of God, but of their loved ones?

The death penalty should be abolished not for religious reasons (also religious people seem to approve of the dath penalty — which to me makes no sense) but because every person who is killed is one less set of DNA to be passed on to succeeding generations, and who knows what those wasted genes could mean for the future of the species?

And these people have been taught for so long to take their religious leaders at their word and that their religion means more than anything that they don't care whether the person is lying or not.

Aside from the religious aspect, this is a spontaneous artifact that had a lot of meaning for some people.

However, invoking Christianity did prove effective as a means for inciting and manipulating people to commit those horrific atrocities, and that is the latent danger of religious furvor.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

There is no where in any part of Quran or Sunnah where it says people or youth are to be chained... and kept in dungeons... Thisnis ignorance, arrogance and conspiracy done by ill hearted people in the name of religion when it is by no mean a part of religion... I have seen such cases only at remote poor areas when they have mentally sick youth or people who could be dangerous for others and can not afford to hospitalize are being kept chained like that but not in religious establishments, rather at places where fraud witch doctors who claim that those are possessed...!!!

In his Stages on Life's Way (SLW), Kierkegaard speaks of irony as the means by which persons make the transition between aesthetic and ethical awareness, and humor as the means for making the transition between ethical and religious awareness.

Religious stories continue to be powerful engines of meaning for billions of persons around the world, as they have been for millennia.

It's their way or the highway and to compromise is to show a lack of faith which means you have one side willing to make exceptions for all peoples religions as long as they don't force it on others, and the religious side that says making exceptions or compromising is against their religion so if they are not a majority in the democracy they instead decide to play obstructionist.

And that means you are someone who is easily swayed to believe something... way more than any other religious person who at least require a basis for their faith.

People of faith and foundations with concern for religious liberty must start establishing alternative means to help students fund their education.

Some religious people think that «standing up for Christ» in today's culture means telling others that God hates gays.

The bill, called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), would protect the right of every person to practice his religion, without exception, unless the government can show that it bas a «compelling» reason to interfere (meaning that the reasons for the interference are extraordinarily important and can not reasonably be attained in any other way).

Yes, by all means, let us maintain, undergird, and strengthen our precious Baptist distinctives: our commitment to a regenerate church membership, believers» baptism by immersion in the name of the triune God, our stand for unfettered religious liberty, and all the rest» but let us do this not so that people will say how great the Baptists are but rather what a great Savior the Baptists have, what a great God they serve.

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.

This means that television is itself becoming a kind of religion, shaping the faith and values of many people in the nation, and providing an alternate worldview to the old reality, and to the old religious view based on that reality, for millions of viewers.

Marty says nothing about what this challenge might mean for theological schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.

From the outset, Volf makes it clear that he is on a religious and social quest that involves the whole person, individual and social, in the search for meaning and happiness.

That's a fact so all this talk means nothing, you die and then nothing, best feeling is knowing that for all crazy stuff religious people do the moment they die the realization comes... oh no god!

majority of people who claim to be, «religious,» are hypocrites and bend and twist the words of there religion to fit there own needs, and use it as a means to an end for all types of things.

RD.. How path - et - ic to see your hate and fear driving you to death...!?! Man pull your self together and have the courage to face the returns of your deeds... Wars were always there in life whether were religious or not so stop doing it on your self... Beside learn to wish people well whether you agree or disagree with might you succeed in life rather than being a loser... by being a cowered... My posts were meant for the friendly people I had known for some time, whom I found they were full of compassion and not for black hearted one's like you who hate all God creations...

At any rate, among such people as David Burrell, Stephen Crites, Samuel McClendon, Donald and Walter Capps, James Wiggins, John Dunne and, in a different way, Richard R. Niebuhr and William Lynch, it is a concern with concrete, ordinary experience that for some has meant a renewed interest in religious autobiography — Paul's letters, Augustine's Confessions, John Woolman's Journal, Kierkegaard's writings, the theological work of Teilhard de Chardin, Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers, Dorothy Day's autobiography and so on.

The Reformation may have familiarized the world with the concept of religious choice, but that choice became a reality for most people only with the advent of cheap and easy means of private transportation.

This does not mean that religious persons can not crusade for Capitalism; but it does mean that nonreligious persons, like myself, can not crusade for religion.

For issues relating to the meaning of life, people turn to their religious and / or ethical traditions.

Tanya Erzen is no sympathizer with what she describes as the Religious Right, although gay activists sometimes suggest that her sympathy for people in the ex-gay movement means she is just another conservative «homophobe.»

Kent — the term religious is being used as a noun, not an adjective, and represents people who have taken orders (orders meaning having joined a specific religeous organization in order to live in that organization for the rest of their lives).

For some people it has religious meaning, for some it does nFor some people it has religious meaning, for some it does nfor some it does not.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

The war was promoted as a «just war» — the argument that when a war meets certain philosophical or religious purposes, for the greater good or rescue of people from evil, that it is considered «just» in the eyes of God and his people, an inescapable path for doing good through evil means.

This meant for the earliest disciples a basic renunciation of the struggle for existence, implemented by a complete break with the power structure of society: the automatic prerogatives of the chosen people, the security of the holy tradition, the comfort of established religious organization and clergy — all such props, controlled by man and as a result constantly available to him for securing his existence, were in principle eliminated.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

Such a strong emphasis on personal experience alarms some religious thinkers, but for you such experience seems to mean more to the person of our time than it ever did before.

When a person begins to make accommodations in their religious world view for salvation by means other than Jesus and the teachings of the Bible, they have effectively denied one of the primary tenets of their faith.

I am not a religious person but I believe we are meant to be here for a higher purpose, maybe there is a GOD or a being in the universe that is older and wiser that we can possibly imagine.

Not only do scientists — and especially social scientists — demonstrate radically low levels of religious commitment, but scientific and social scientific meaning systems appear to operate as functional alternatives to traditional theistic ideas for a number of people, and technical rationality plays an increasingly important legitimating function in the wider society.

They usually take place outside the Divinity School, and they are intended, not for specialists in religious studies of any kind, but for a general audience of people, mainly, but by no means exclusively, undergraduate, whose courses of study may lie in other fields, but who are interested in listening to a non-technical presentation of questions with which theologians are concerned and perhaps also in taking part in discussions which are arranged to follow the lectures.

Mohler's rejection of this is bad for the Southern Baptist movement and for well - meaning religious people in general.

The word religion has the root meaning of binding together, which may be a deeper experience for the religious person than for others.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

Religious people have strong intuitions, deep convictions, and ultimate commitments which provide meaning and guidance for their lives, but often even they are hard pressed when they seek to support their own way of looking on God and the world.

The real struggle in all religious communities is for spiritual reformation opening themselves to enter into dialogue with other religions and with secular humanist ideologies regarding the nature and rights of the human person and the meaning of social justice enabling to build together a new spiritually - oriented humanism and a more humane society.

It makes many religious people mad, b / c we all want a God who is for us, which means against them.

I mean, their belief system is generally based on faith that there is no god, even though there is no proof for an absolute materialist universe, which is as much a statement of faith as a religious persons» Note I am agnostic and find both extremes goofy.